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False Confidence in Man Psalm 33:16

No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.

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False Confidence in Man Psalm 62:9

Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

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False Confidence in Man Psalm 118:8

It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.

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False Confidence in Man Psalm 146:3, 4

Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save. / When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

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False Confidence in Man Isaiah 2:22

Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

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False Confidence in Man Jeremiah 17:5

This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

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False Confidence in Man Hosea 5:13

When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.

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False Confidence in Man Hosea 7:11

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.

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